JAMES H. FRISWELL


_French Maxim_.--I beg to inform your correspondent "R.V." in
reply to his query (No. 14. p. 215.), that the maxim quoted is the
218th of Rochefoucauld: "L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice
rend à la vertu."

J.H.F.


_Singular Motto_.--The "singular motto" which occasions
"P.H.F.'s" wonder (No. 14. p. 214.), is, without doubt, a cypher,
and only to be rendered by those who have a Key. Such are not
unfrequent in German, Austrian, or Bohemian Heraldry.

J.H.F.


_Discurs. Modest._--At p. 205. No. 13., your correspondent N.
replies to A.T.'s query, that "there can be no reasonable doubt,
that the _original_ authority for _Rem transubstantiationis
patres ne altigisse quidem_, is William Watson in his _Quodlibet_,
ii. 4. p. 31."

By a note of mine, I find that this secular priest, W. Watson, lays
the expression in question to the charge of the Jesuits as "an
heretical and most dangerous assertion of theirs." Admitting,
therefore, the _Discurs. Modest_. to have been published after
Watson's _Decacordon_, i.e. later than 1602 (which can hardly